Growing up Quotes · Page 113

Growing up, I learned quickly that I lived in an atmosphere where the odds were never in my favor.

— Liv Morgan

No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job.

— Hilary Liftin

You never know what's going on in somebody's mind. There's a lot of pressure on someone growing up. You have to watch…

— Tupac Shakur

Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.

— Jodi Picoult

Acting was always a secret desire of mine when I was growing up.

— Andrea Navedo

I knew what it was like growing up in a world where I never saw myself in anything.

— Kelly Marie Tran

Growing up, I listened to a lot of Queen and Lauryn Hill because of my dad. Those are songs that have messages.

— CL

We're all just trying to fit in and find ourselves, particularly when we're growing up.

— Geri Halliwell

When I was a child, growing up on a council estate in the northeast of England, I imbibed enough of the background…

— David Olusoga

People in London are so much more exposed to danger, or bad things. It took me quite a long time to grow…

— Eliot Paulina Sumner

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to…

— Nicole Krauss

I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because…

— William P. Young

I loved the 'Die Hard' films growing up and the 'Taken' movies. They're so entertaining, and I enjoy being on the edge…

— Michelle Dockery

Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is.…

— Carmen Ejogo

I appreciate everything that happend in my past.There were good times and bad times.It made me to the person I am today…

— Ewshy

One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth…

— Patricia Briggs

Favorite books and authors while growing up - I'd need a book to list them all. For the sake of brevity: Shakespeare,…

— Lloyd Alexander

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of…

— Jaquelin T. Robertson

A father would do well, as his son grows up, and is capable of it, to talk familiarly with him; nay, ask…

— John Locke

When I was growing up, I wanted to be a coach. I had people telling me you can't do this, you're not…

— Dick Vitale

My feeling about growing up in New Jersey was, 'How come I'm not in New York?' That being said, I'm older and…

— Anne Hathaway

Growing up in my family meant ambushes on your birthday, crossbows for Christmas, and games of dodge ball where the balls were…

— Anonymous

Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help…

— David Rubenstein

“I know it’s impossible for you to see peers this way, but when you’re older, you start to see them—the bad kids…

— John Green

This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

— Sylvia Brownrigg

We didn't have a lot of money growing up, so my mom didn't buy a lot of extras, like sweet things.

— Julianne Moore

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

— Fran Drescher

My mom helped me. I was very shy growing up, but my shyness sort of manifested in a big personality.

— Tracee Ellis Ross

I was really squeamish growing up - not too fond of blood and guts.

— Trevante Rhodes

When I was growing up, it was so embarrassing to be from Jersey.

— Tate Donovan

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in…

— Lindi Ortega

I have these "pinch me" moments when I realize I got to be the thing I wanted to be growing up. I'm…

— Jennifer Weiner

Growing up, I never saw anyone like me on TV, so I was honoured to win a Logie, but it's definitely not…

— Dylan Alcott

We spend the first half of our lives trying to grow up and the other half trying to figure out how we…

— Nishan Panwar

“They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.”

— George Eliot

As far as ethnicity, you grow up being sensitive to things around you and then become more proactive about it.

— Prefuse 73

'Ders' is something I've been called since I was six by neighbors and stuff growing up.

— Anders Holm

I'm not trying to be like what I thought an NBA player is supposed to be growing up.

— Kevin Durant

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

— Patty Jenkins

Growing up in a terraced house in Wolverhampton, just me and my mum, I don't know where I got my love of…

— Denise Lewis